Enterprise Business Intelligence Suite (Business Objects)
Service Description
Shared Service Offering provides all agencies with a business intelligence application to create reports and dashboards by bringing together data from multiple systems.
What is Included
Provides software licenses for both Centralized Business Objects Enterprise and De-centralized BOE.
Provides a fully-managed Centralized Business Objects Enterprise server environment with software version controls, capacity planning, and backups.
Administers folders, user’s permissions and firewalls.
Maintains Business Objects developer’s portal and intranet.
Enables development of both reports and dashboards from defined “universe of data”.
Optional features of this service are:
Development by Integrated Enterprise System (IES) of a “universe of data” built from agency specific SAP data.
Assist in agency development of reports and/or dashboards using the agency specific “SAP universe of data”.
Development by OA of a “universe of data” built from agency specific data but does not include SAP data.
Assist in agency development of reports and/or dashboards using the agency specific “OA universe of data”.
Service Levels
Availability Service Level Objective:
Additional Information
Contact RA-businessobjects@pa.gov for additional information about this service.
The components that make up the EQRA package (Enterprise Query, Reporting, and Analysis) are the following:
Business Objects Enterprise Premium.
Business Objects Xcelsius Enterprise Interactive Viewing.
Business Objects Live Office
Xcelsius Enterprise.
Crystal Reports – Desktop Developer.
Publisher.
Web Intelligence/Rich Client.
Business Objects Voyage.
Platform as a Service
Service Description
Provides a consistent, reliable, and secure platform for communication, collaboration and desktop/laptop computing for commonwealth agencies under the Governor’s jurisdiction. Common services include Active Directory, MS Exchange, and Message Hygiene.
What is Included
Service Levels
Availability Service Level Objective:
Additional Information
Enterprise Messaging reference documents which provides more in-depth details of this service are available at https://itcentral.pa.gov/TechServ/Pages/Messaging.aspx
Platform as a Service
Global Managed File Transfer (MFT)
Service Description
The MFT service facilitates secure transfer of electronic files across customers and their stakeholders, and provides the configuration of automated workflow capabilities to support business processes. The service is used to securely transfer files that are too large to be sent via email and/or accessible from a commonwealth website.
What is Included
Support multiple file transfer protocols including FTP/S, SFTP and HTTP/S.
Securely transfer files over public and private networks using. encrypted file transfer protocols.
Capable of Securely storing files using data encryption methods.
Automate file transfer processes between Agencies and business partners including detection and handling of failed file transfers using an integrated workflow engine.
Generate detailed reports on user and file transfer activity.
Service Levels
Priority Levels and Allowable Response Times
Critical– within 30 minutes to respond to customer
High– up to 8 hours to respond to customer
Medium– up to 24 hours to respond to customer
Low– up to 48 hours to respond to customer
“Response Time” is defined as the time between receipt of the call and/or ticket and the time that work on the problem begins. Due to the wide diversity of problems that can occur, and the methods needed to resolve them, response time is not defined as the time between the receipt of a call and/or ticket and problem resolution.
Availability Service Level Objective:
Target 99% uptime
Additional Information
None
Platform as a Service
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